The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-13 00:00:00

RO AYL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent -garden. Last Week but Two. Extra Night. Last Night of Le Prophete. TO-MORROW EVENING (THURSDAY), July 14, will be performed, positively for the last time this season, Meyer :ver's Grand Opera, in four acts, LE PROPFIETE. Fides, Madame Didiee ; Bertha, Madame Rudersdorff ; Count Ober- Via!, Signor TaglialL:o ; Zaccaria, Signor Capponi ; Mathisen, W,ignor Polonini ; Giona, Signor Neri-Baraldi ; and Jean of Leyden, Signor Tamberlik. Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Grated Skiting Scene and incidental Divertissement will be supported by it le. Salvoni, Carmine, Mdlle. Navarre, and M. Desplaces. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre sta is, 10s. ed., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 2s. (id, Boxes , stal ls, and tickets ma y be ha i l at the box-ofEc,, under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five, alid at the principal rausicsellcrs' and OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- VI; Sole Lessee and Manap,er, Mr. Geo. 'Vining, THIS EVFINING, BORN TO GODD LUCK. O'Kafferfy, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, the new pay by John Oxenford, 1;s1, THE 310NASTERY OF S : Messrs. Vining, H. Mars ton, J. Nelson, J. W. Ray, H. Mellon, W. Robins, Seyton, Chapman ; Mrs. H. Alaaton, and l Mdlle. Mdlle. Lolas. raddy fiSkr THEATRE-RO !AL, ADELPIII.--. sale Prooriator an s Alanv.zpr. 'Mr. B. Webster. TIIIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S SOUSE. Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. R. Phillips. After which, JANET PRIDE ; Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, Stephenson, Romer ; Miss Woo lg,"ar, Miss Denman. Followed by THE AREA BELLE, with a l'Corrible T a l e: Messrs. J. L. Toole, e. Bediord, it. Itomeraiss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Comraence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion. Rc•enc.Tagement of tho M se ce:ebrate Charles d M and popular artistes, Mr. a n rs. athews. Production of an entirely new oris nil Travestie of a very ular subject , by F. C. Burnan , ' Esq., enti led FAITS f 11 0 1 &. D mA RGIJERIVE, in which Mr. and M: s Charles Mathews will appear. The new scenery by the celebrated artists, Messrs. Ranson and Sons ; the incid e ntal B a let by ()sea r Byrne. a m ongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charle, Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr..F. Robinson. Mr. Asuley, , Mr. J. Johnstone: I}ile4 Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, Mrs. Stirling, anu Mrs. Chas. Mathews. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. F. Robinson. At a quarter-past 8, a new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND MAII.GUERITE : Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Montague. 3i r. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberlame, and Mrs. C. 3lathewl. At 10, E.ITTLE TODDLEKLN S, Mr. Charles Mathews Mr. and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with BRISTOL DIAMONDS. Frank Mathews, Mr. Ash ey, Miss Wentworth. Mr. and Mrs, OPERA and RACE GLASSES, Field and Yacht Glasses, in every varie' y of size, form, and mounting, matchless for their great magnifying power and sharpness of definition. Price, from 30s. each, at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W.. corner or Conduit-street. Sole agent for the celebrated race and field glasses and photo graphic lenses made by Veigtlander, Vienna. Field glasses mace expressly for India. warranted to withstand thegA eatest tropical heat. The new aluminium mounted glasses (as re cently made for H.R.H. the Prince cf Wales', though ol the largest size, weigh but a sew ounce:. COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stock a variety of WASHING srmi DRE6SES, suitatle for the country and seaside, and at the c.earing-out &nice of only £1 118. 6d. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 231, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r' sen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far greater per-centage. Messrs. JAY, therefore, invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b, more co _tly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 249, an]. 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'....... 235. per ton. I Double.. ..20s. per ton. Top 225. „ Deep 2ls. Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and i 7, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. dE THIRD EDITION OF " THE Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, csa be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, News AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, July 13, 1864. TIIEUMOIS This day at Two o'clock Barometer-20.90. WIND—N.E. ; moderate breeze and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAY.—Morning, 7h. 58m.—Afternoon, Bh. 28m. ci.zenutow.-Morning, Bh. 59m.—Afternoon, 9h. 36m. Pr "vAT uu. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1864. Events succeed one another with such startling rapidity in our busy focus of civilisation and inven tion that incidents of conspicuous importance fade rapidly from the popular mind. Of late foreign politics have engrossed every one's attention, and the political crisis has divided our interest with the progress of the American war. The struggle in Denmark has in some measure thrown the great transatlantic conflict into the shade, bat it is im possible to forget the fratricidal strife still deso lating the fair and fertile lands of a kindred com munity. Under such a pressure of subjects for thought, for discussion, and for inquiry, it is, therefore, not surprising if events of a domestic nature, but less momentous in their issues, assume a secondary place. Unhappily we have lately been never left long without some fresh horror, some now feature in the "sensation" drama. Accident, murder, fire, and disaster of ev er y ki n d seem to follow each other too often, in spite of our boasted caution, from preventible causes. Few of these catastrophes have been more appalling in their nature, or more desolating in their extent, than the bursting of the Bradfield reservoir, when the silent waters swept away the unthinking sleepers to a stiller and darker rest. At the time it impressed the public mind most painfully, but in our busy metropolis it is now only thought of among the things of the past. We need not wonder, however, that to those living in the vicinity of such under takings the accident is no mere story of the past, but an ever-present terrific reality. We need not wonder that they do not imitate the indifference or heedlessness o f the Bradfield victims, but that by culvert and emb an k ment with day they watch night brings unt o ld terrors. anxious eyes, while When once a doubt has been thrown on the secu rity of a reservoir, when they have, as in some cases, seen for themselves signs . of weakness or decay in the works, we need not marvel that many of the poorer people are afraid to rest in their beds during stormy weather and that thestate of continual alarm and excitement is described by a gentleman in the neighbourhood es PzEjudicial alike to com fort and to health. Such a Position is worse than that of the soldier lying in Wait for an Ltteck, for at least he expects to combat a mortal foe, but the insidious enemy of these poor cott agars is of over whelming strength and subtlety, a n d . against it they are powerless to contend. It is certainly not astonishing that a widespread uneasiness should exist throughout those northern districts in whi c h suc h reservoirs are numerous ; and it was with h view of allaying such natural anxiety that Mr. FERRAND on Monday night called the attention of the Home Secretary to the whole matter of this system of water supply. He complained that the Parliamentary Committee sitting on the question refused to introduce protecting clauses into a waterworks bill, but told the applicants that they could have their remedy at law in case of accident. This is certainly a very unsatisfactory way of doing business, since it is impossible to compensate people for ,killing them. FERRAND reminded the House that after the Sheffield catastrophe the Home Secretary seat down two eminent engineers to in quire into the effAir, and that in the course of their inquiry they elicited the fact that there were 12 reservoirs in the neighbourhood of Sheffield, all in a more or less unsatisfactory condition. It will be remembered that the jury in the Bradfield case re commended in their verdict that the Legislature should take such aotion as should result in a Govern mental inspection. Mr. RAWLINSON and Mr. BEARDMORE, however, the gentlemen whom the Government despatched to examine into the mat ter, did not approve of this recommendation, since they said that the Government could not ensure ultimate safety, and that the responsibility must rest with the engineers. Sir G. GREY, in replying to Mr. FEItRAND, said that it would be perfectly impossible for the Government to undertake the responsibility of certifying the safety of these re servoirs. The only rimed) , which he could sag• gest was, that where dangerous works existed, legal proceedings should be taken by persons who felt alarm against the owners. But this is a very roundabout way of doing business when people are in daily fear of a catastrophe. At the Tilsden reservoir it is stated that the water is constantly welling out of the culvert. Some residents in the neighbourhood went up with lighted candles and examined it and found the water flowing in at several places. "Whence that water comes, and what unseen work it may be carrying forward, no man can tell. It issues from the aides of the culvert where all ought to be watertight, when the waterflow is stopped by the valves being down as they were when we were up the culvert." Such is the testimony of eye witnesses, and it must be remembered that with regard to this and other works of the kind Mr. RAWLINSON, the Government Engineer, declines to assume any responsibility. With these facts bsfore him, and with the Bradfield catastrophe fresh in his recollection, it is not surprising that Mr. FERRAND should emphatically ask of Govern• ment where the responsibility lies ? Is no one to be answerable for the safety of works that involve the safety of hundreds of lives, and property valued at hundreds of thousands ? Can no person or persons be pointed out as the really responsible agent who assumes the risk of certifying that so far as mortal skill or ingenuity can be counted on the work is sate ? If there is to be no such assurance and the burden of responsibility is to be shifted from one to another, from Government Inspector to local engineer, from local engineer to managing committee, from committee to company, and the only means of relieving pressing anxiety is a tedious process in a law court, then .the Legislature may well pause before they sanction any more such stupendous undertakings. The true way of settling the difficulty would be to adopt the clause proposed on a former occasion, to the effect that, before any of these reservoirs are filled with water after their construction some eminent engineer should report to the Home Office that they were secure and had been made upon a correct principle. The Government assumes this office with railway lines, why should it decline the duty of inspection with reservoirs. This shrinking from responsibility on all sides is most inconsistent and unreasonable. If engineering science is capable of constructing such works, it ought to be capable of giving a decided opinion as to their security, and the visit of a qualified inspec= tor is no more than the Government can properly be called upon to do. After the works have been so certified they may be trusted to the local engineers, who should be kept to their duty, either by render ing a report at stated intervals, compulsory, or by some other similar means. The chief danger in all these reservoirs seems to arise from the works being hastily or improperly constructed at the outset, and this could certainly be guarded against with very little difficulty on the part of the Executive. Mr. FEBRAND summed upi the whole matter in a con cluding paragraph of his speecb, when he said that " What the people naturally expected was, that some legal authority should exist to bear upon the contractors.pf these reservoirs, so as to compel them to make their embankments so secure that the people might rest in peace in their neighbour. hood." This is, one would imagine, no task of superhuman difficulty, and it would be well for our legislators to give it their careful consideration, for certainly when so many lives and so much pro• perty and social prosperity are at stake, the public will not be inclined to acquit the authorities of all blame if an accident occurs, even if they have pre• viously declined their share of responsibility. It is really quite disheartening to ponder upon the various points of the Danish question ; so in suffic:eat have been the efforts made to controvert the intentions of Prussia, and so unequal the attempts to restrain that lawless Power within due limits. It is, however, impossible to pass over in silence the circular of M. DROLTYN DE LRUYS on the subject of the Conference. Not that it contains much of a novel nature—for it is merely a recapitulation of events—it presents us with a sum mart' of the most important transactions that then and there took place; and if it hes any special object it seems to aim at exonerating France from all participation in the blame that is inseparably attached to those who took a leading part in the councils that terminated so suddenly, and which issued so disastrously. In one passage it would almost seem as if M. DROUYN DE LRUYS was at tempting a sort of quiet satire, and no one can blame him if such were his intention. He observer that it " has not been the fault of France that the conclusion was not different," in alluding to the labours of the Conference. This will also bear the interpretation that the fault rested elsewhere. In his resume of events it does not certainly appear that very much emanated from the representatives of France, but their chief duty lay in agreeing with what others proposed, which might conduce to the advantage of Denmark, and, in some measure, fulfil the object for which ostensibly they set to work. The last paragraph of the despatch contains an expression that may or may not mean anything, 1 but it certainly can be construed into a kind of warning to Prussia not to push matters to extremity and violate the bounds of decorum. After alluding to the Impartial attitude hitherto displayed by France, M. DROUYINT DE LRUYS observes that "we are will ing to hope that no complication will arise of so grave a nature as to necessitate our embracing a different policy:, It will be well if this intimation, guarded though it be, produce some effect, and if the words of the Minister of a country not given to empty boast and valorous phrases, while secretly resolved on peace, may have weight in quarters the threats, men aces , entreaties, where unhappily and advice of our Cabinet are openly disregarded and impertinently received. If no credit can attach i tself to France for the result of this Conference, anyeuforgreat he m neither can any one say, on cr iticising event s , th at ou failuren amount of o f a blame can accrue projectin whose origin they had no sh are, It may also be ad d e d th at i t i s m to her states not probable, if the meeting of the Conference had taken place at Paris instead of in London, that so little heed would have been paid to the wishes of the nation where the Pl enipotentiaries met; and i; is not at all likely that the representatives of the German Powers would have dared to comport themselves before the Cabinet of the Tuileries as they did to that of St, TAMOA, It gertls reserved for our country to endure the degradation of meet• ing with scorn on all side and to win regard from no party. To such a pass has the inconsistency of our foreign policy brought us, that a despatch frcm our Minister for Foreign Affairs can hardly be of any striking import to other nations, because they know by this time that its object is to be bound by no promises. The visits of the Prince of WALES to time. honoured institutions are by no means the least important of the tasks ho performs, for the fact of his thus mingling in the engagements which occupy and interest a portion of the community, serves to associate him intimately with their concerns. The Corporation of Cloth workers is one of the oldest guilds of the City of London. It was in corporated by Royal Charter i❑ 1480, in the reign of EDWARD the FOURTEr. Since that period many distinguished personages have been enrolled as members of the Guild. JAMES the FIRST was admitted to the brotherhood in 1607. His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES has then illustrious examples of the past to induce him to become con nected with this ancient and wealthy Corporation, while of late years there have also been many, and among them his father. The late PRINCE CONSORT was a member, and therefore this is another instance among the many in which the Prince has follawed the example of his illustrious father, in been:ling associated with the institutions and societies of the land. Of course so auspicious an occasion was made the opportunity of a festive gathering to a select circ'e, and the presence of the Princess imparted an additional charm to the proceedings. The Master, in address. ing the Prince, made some appropriate remarks on the subject of requesting him to accept the freedom and livery of the Company of Cloth workers, and expressed an earnest hope that here, after, as in past times, there might be a continuous association between them and the Royal Family of this kiegdom. The Prince, on his part, declared his satisfaction at the manner in which he had been received, and assured those present that he took great pleasure in becoming a member, and also that he felt proud to follow in the steps of his ancestors, those Kings who had been enrolled in past days, and in following the example of his father. Thera is much to give rise:to satisfaction in these meetings of the highest in the land with those who represent our commercial interests. It is more than the mere interchange of compliments and the empty expression of fine words and flowing phrases. The gracious and genial manners of the young Prince and Princess have won all hearts, and they can do no wiser and better thing if they wish to retain their popularity than to concern themselves in the interests of the community, and to associate their names with institutions that are rendered important by the past and contain promise for the future, and which from their antiquity and records may claim to some share of the attraction that appertains to societies of historical interest. Crimes on Railways, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sut,—The recent horrible murder in a. railway carriage induces me to call the attention of the public, through your columns, to a simple mode of preventing assassination or outrage upon railway carriages. In some parts of Russia, Austria, and Germany I have travelled in trains in which all the carriages were in com munication by means of a gangway passing from one carriage to the other. The guard requests the passengers to show their tickets whili the train is at full speed. The compart ments into which each carriage is divided may be shut at pleasure or thrown open in case of need. The guard patrols the train at interval 3, and every passenger can claim not only his assistance, but, on account of the communication through and between the carriages, the assistance of all his fellow passengers at any moment. Tho railway companies would, under this system, have to reconstruct the carriages now in use; but this consideration should be nothing in comparison with the safety which the plan mentioned would guarantee to the public.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, J LILS Itzu TER, Royal Exchange buildings, July 12, CARDINAL WISEMAN AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. —Cardinal Wiseman presided yesterday at a dijeuner at the Crystal Palace, for the benefit of the Brook green Catholic Almshouses. There were present Biehop Morris and other clergymen, and several leading Catholic laymen and their families. Speaking of the Pope, Cardinal Wiseman said that a distinguished ecclesiastical guest of his just come from Rome assured him that the Pope was now in excellent health, and was even able to discharge laborious duties recently. The Cardinal spoke cf the Queen with much feeling, and referred to the wisdom which had marked her reign. Of the Prince of Wales the Cardinal said that it was gratifying to find his royal high ness mingling with the people every day, and assisting to advance the social well-being of the country. The Pope's health and the Queen's health were both duly honoured, the company standing while " God Bless the Pope" and "God Save the Queen" were sung. Mr. Cook conducted the music. NEW LlFEBOAT.—Yesterday some satisfactory harbour trials were made in the Regent's -canal Dock, Lirnehouse, with two new 33-fret lifeboats, under the superintendence of the officers of the National Lifeboat In stitution, and in the presence of a large number of persons. The lifeboats having been capsized by means of some tack ling attached to an hydraulic crane, they self-righted at once, and the water brought back with the boats was self ejected in half a minute. One of the boats is to be sent to New Brighton, and is the gift of the National Lifeboat In sitution, of Joseph Leather, Esq., of Liverpool. She is called the Willie and Arthur, after his two sons. The other is to be stationed at Sermon Cove, Land's End, and (ha cost of it has been given to the Lifeboat Institution, by Mrs Mary Ann Davis, of Bideford. It is called, at,. her re quest, The Cousins. The Paris correspondent of our contemporary the .Herald appears to be excessively aggrieved by what was purely an inadvertence on our part, in reference to a few lines of comment appended to an article from the Opinion Nationale. No journal published in either country is more scrupulously careful than The Sun in acknowledging every quotation, however brief, from any one of its contem poraries. ALLEGED MURDER IN DERBYSHIRE.-012 111011- day afternoon last an inquest was opened at Clay Cross, by Mr Coroner Nasby, on the body of a man named John M'Morrow, aged 61, a lodginghouse keeper, at Clay Cross, Derbyshire. In a deposition made by deceased he stated that on the 22d of June he went to Chesterfield to attend a funeral. On returning home his wife and he quar relled, and he finally left the house. He did not return till 12 o'clock at night. She was then sitting in the kitchen in her bonnet and shawl, and refused to go to bed, saying she would cut her throat. He ultimately took off his coat and hat, and hung them up at some distance from the fire. He awoke between one and two o'clock and found himself on fire. He cried for help, and saw his wife running away from him and laughing at him. He would have been soon burnt to death but that his cries roused the lodgers, who threw buckets of water on him and extinguished the flames. He was dreadfully burnt on the back, left side and left arm, the two shirts ho had on and his waistcoat being nearly consumed. As soon as the fire was extinguished the deceased went tor the police and publicly charged his wife with setting fire to him. She denied it, and said he had fallen on the fire while drunk. Evidence was produced at the inquest which contradicted her. As a proof of de ceased's intoxication, she raked out of the ashes his tobacco box, saying, " There, you see, you fell in the fire ;" but one of the lodgers confirmed deceased that he had taken the box out of his pocket after he was burnt, and that he had left it on the table when he went for the police. Deceased's coat was also found by the police to be burnt, although he affirmed that he had not got it on at the time. Ho how ever pointed out that, although his left arm was burnt, the right sleeve of his coat was destroyed, and he charged his wife with burning it. It was also proved that when de ceased was heard crying out " Fire" his wife was heard laughing and talking upstairs. Although deceased was attended by Di Wilson, and had everything done for him that was possible, he died on the 9th inst., from the burns. The inquiry was adjourned till Friday next. The wife, Mary l'i'Morrow is in custody, charged with the murder of her husband, and has been remanded by the Alfreton magistrates to await the result of the inquiry. A GUARDIAN ANGEL.—By the Author of "A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam," &c. Two Vols.— The simple naivete which perva:les all the writings of the author of this agreeable story is abundantly manifested in its pages, and contributes very much to render it one of the most popular she has ever published. The Guardian Angel is a merry-hearted girl, who, in all her disappointments, strives to view everything on its sunny side, and is always ready to sacrifice herself for the good cf others. Clever as are most of the authoress'a productions, we are inclined to think she never did greater justice to her talent than when she wrote "A Guardian Atigel,",—Jkonnger, rntei SUIN,'.LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1864, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. DENMARK. FLENSBURG, JULY 12. The passage of the Lymfiord has been success• fully effected by the Prussian troops under General Falkenstein. The head. quarters will be removed to At trupgaard to-day, and in all probability to Frederickshafen on Thursday. NORWAY. CHRISTIANIA, IrLy 12, According to a statement in the Norgenbladet of to-day, the whole of the army intended for active service has been disembodied, the men being sent away on furlough. One portion of the fleet has been recalled, be the other is still held in reaeiness for service. DESPATCH OF THE BOMBAY MAIL, SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 12 The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Massilia, Captain Almond, with the above :mil, sailed hence to-day. She takes 13 first and 29 second class passengers, among whom are Lieut. Shaw, Colonel Williams, Dr. James, Ensigns 101 l and Grove, Major Taylor, and Assistant-Surgeon Milburne. The specie shipped by the iNlassilia, for Bombay, consists of 267 boxes, amounting to £128,788 10s. sterling, of which £54,900 in bar gold, £6,000 in gold coin, £61,750 in bar silver, £5,100 in silver coin, and £1,038 10s. in gold, thread, watches, &e. THE BOMBAY MAIL, The Salsette, with the above mail, arrived a Suez, at 8 a.m., this day. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS, SOUTHAMPTON, JULY, 13, The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steam ship Tasmanian, with the above mails, passed the Needles at 12,25 p,m. to.day. PRANCE. BOURSE, July 12.—The market has been firm, but Without any further improvement in rente, Threes for the Account, being unvaried at 66f. 30c. Mo. bilier have advanced to firm at 1,095 f. Railway and many of the lines quo closed as follows :- 41 per Cents .. 93 80 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 30 Credit Mobilier 1001 25 Do. end month 1003 75 Bank Shares 3425 Credit Fancier 1230 Roman L,003f. 75c., and are now Shares rather in demand, ,ed higher. The market Italian Loan 63 50 Do. end month 6B 50 Ditto Threes .. New Mexican .... 57 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes.., ..... home Debt .. 4B 50 Deferred RAILwAYti. Cash. Account. 87:5 873 75 970 978 75 897 50 .. 893 75 Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern 640 .. 652 50 Western Eastern .... 475 .. 473 75 Sardinian 353 75 .. 355 Austrian Lombard 533 75 .. 535 • North of Spain .... 437 50 .. 437 50 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Regtstrar-General's Report.) The deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,268. The number returned have varied little during the last five weeks, 1,262 having been the lowest in that period, and 1,297 the highest. The average number for the 27th week of ten years 1854-63 is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,172. The actual result of last week is therefore in excess of the estimated number by nearly 100 deaths. Diarrtw t contin ues to increase slowly, and it was returned last week in 81 cases. Seventy-nine deaths from measles were registered. This disease exhibits a mortality double the average, but its weekly num ber is not higher now than it was after it obtained a sudden increase in the middle of May. It is not a favourable sign of the sanitary condition of the eastern division of the metropolis that it returned more deaths from measles' than any other division, also more from whooping-cough, typhus, and diar rhea]. There were seven from measles in Mile-end Old-town. Of six deaths in the Old-street subdis trict of St. Luke four were from measles, one from diptheria, and one from fever. Of eight deaths in llaggerstone East six were from zymotic diseases. A maa died from '° thrombi of the femoral veins (seven days), celema of the lu ngs (eight days)." In the Cambridge-road, Bethn a l- green , on the 2d inst. a greengrocer, aged 61 y ears , di e d o f" cholera Asiatica (five days), following consecutive fever." Last week the births of 967 boys and 900 girls, in all 1,876 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854.63 the average number, corrected, was 1,782. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.88 in. On Sunday the reading was 29 . 47 in, and rose to 30.02 in on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 56.5 deg., which is 5 .1 deg. below the average of the sam e wee k i n 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher). Th e mean d a ily tempe rature was below the average th roug h ou t the week. The highest day temperature was 74.1 deg. on Tues day. (The lowest night temper a t ure was 45'8 deg, on Friday. The range of tempe ra t ure i n t h e week was therefore 28.3 dag. The mean d a ily r ange was 20.8 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point and air was 9 deg. The mean degree of hu midity of the air was 72, represent e d by 100. The w i n d was in the south west on the first two days, th en i n the north-west, and afterwards in the north- eas t. The amount of rain was 0.13 in., which fell on SundaY l accompa nied with thunder. complete saturatio n being The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr Glatter, were 338 and 345 in the weeks ending the 25th of June and the 2d of July, w h en t he mean tempera tures were 66.2 deg. and 57.9 deg. respectively, those at Greenwich having been 58.5 deg. and 57.4 deg. In the thirteen weeks th a t ended the 2 d of July the mortality in London was high; the deaths were 17,346, In the three corresponding quarters of 1860-62 they ranged from about 15,000 to nearly 16,000; in the same quarter of last year they were 17,417. The mean temperature of the air was 53.5 deg., which is the same as it was in the correspond. ing period of 1862, but higher than in any other. spring of 1860 3. There were 2,798 deaths from diseases of the re spiratory organs, a higher number than occurred in any spring quarter of th e four previous years. The mortality from zymoti c di se ases was also high ; it included 4,325 deaths; of which 116 were from smallpox, 844 from meas l es , 593 from scarlatina, 143 from diptheria, 198 from croup, 639 from whooping-cough, 783 from typhus, 321 from diar o rhoea. Measles was the most fatal epidemic diseasef the season, and next t o it typhus. Measles pre vailed chiefly in the east district; it carried off 58 children in the district of Shoreditcb, 55 in Bahnal green, 37 in Whitechapel, 64 in St. George's•in-the East, 22 in St e p ney , 43 i n 3.1i1 e -end Old-town, and 13 in Poplar. Thi s di sease was also very fatal it, Gray's-inn -lane su b di str i ct, in Islington, Hackney, and St. Andrew E as t ern, H o lborn. Of 616 viole n t d eat h s 5 10 were by accident o r negligent©, 30 by homi c id e , 75 by suicide, and one by public execution. Of 2,919 deaths in public institutions, 1,556 were in workhouses, 34 in prisons, 75 in military and naval asylums, 1,181 hospitals, and 74 in lu natic asylums. • FATAL ACCIDENT.—At an inquest held on Mon• day in Abbey-road, St. John's-wood, a verdict of Acci dental Death was returned in the case of a man named Charles Taunton, a publican, who died from the effects of injuries sustained by being thrown out Of cart oil Friday eyeuizg in the above•mraed road. LITERATURE, Hard Cash. By Charles Reade. Three Vols. Second Edition. Sampson Low, Son, and Co. The marvel to us is not that this should be the second edition of " Hard Cash," but that it should not be the twenty-second. The novelist from whose hand, as yet, we take it to be the masterpiecp, as sumes high rank, if not the highest rank, among the greatest word-painters living. He is, accord ing to our estimate of his powers—and let us pre mise that Charles Reade is known to us alone through his books —according to our estimate Obis powers, he is beyond any question at all the Realistic Romancist, not only of his age but of our literature. His huge medite ral fiction we put aside altogether from among his works as a thing apart. It is nothing better in our eyes than an extravagant hallucination. It has none of oar sympathy. It is alien to us altogether. But with regard to his other writings—well, Charles Reade in his character as a fictionist, like the ancient mariner in the hulled of Coleridge, " holds us with his glittering eye," and " bath his will" with us completely. " Peg Woffingtoti" we could read any number of times —as, be it said, any num. ber of times we could sit and watch the unravelment of its plot in its charming dramatised form as "Masks and Faces" at the Adelphi—partioularly with that consummate artist Benjamin Webster, com manding our tears by every tremulous intonation of his voice, by every subtle movement of the nerves of his emotional countenance as Triplet. " Christie Johnstone," again, is a bit of breezy, briny sea coast life, as true to the reality as any radiant picture ever touched to view by the brush of Mr. Hook, the Royal Academician. " Never Too Late To Mend," however, the famous convict story of several years back, and now again this still more wonderfully elabo• rated narrative of " Hard Cash"—the the Very Hard Cash of All the .1 ear Round massed together from its weekly instalments into three handsome and substantial volumes—reveal the distinguishing peculiarities of the genius of Charles Reade at their very best and at their very highest. The root idea, or innermost set purpose, of each of these two remark able works one can't by any possibility but recog nise while reading them, and afterwards, no matter how long afterwards, while looking back at them in recollection, as not simply full of discomfort, but as absolutely repellant and repulsive to the utmost possible degree. Yet, out of these unattractive materiels, in each instance the genius of the writer conjures up a figment enthralling to the extent of absolute fascination. It signifies nothing compara tively, through all our shuddering disgust—that in one instance we have to live and breathe and move, as it were, steeped to the very lips all the horrors of felon-life— that in the other instance, in this latest instance, we are pent up, as it were, during an unconscionable period, in the midst of the yet ghastlier horrors of a very labyrinth of mad-houses! We read on—enthra,lled ! We remember—when we have done reading the story as it is here related to us—we remember the incidents and the people it has been the means at introducing to our notice, as though these recollec. tions it has left behind it, were the results of our own personal experiences. We doubt very much whether any writer in our tongue, even Daniel Defoe, ever more completely bleat and amalga mated—romance and matter•of_fact. There are descriptions in " Hard Cash" as fine in their way as anything that can be named in the whole range of our imaginative literature. There are sea chapters as masterly as the very best that could be adduced from Michael Scott or from Fenimore Cooper. The acconnt of Captain David Dodd's working of the Agra, East Indiaman.—the descrip• tion of his bloody conflict with the Pirates—the record of the rise and progress, and stupendous de velopment, and overwhelming outbreak of the Storm—the awful limning at last of the direst incidents of the Wreck—are worthy of any one, are worthy, in other words, of Charles Reade at his very best as the great English Realistic Romancist. As a mere specimen of his quality as a word painter, however, let us draw nearer home than the great deep far away yonder in those Eastern seas—let us take a more everyday occurrence as the theme descanted upon by his pen of glamour and fascination, Perhaps nothing better in its way as an exemplar of our novelist's marvellously vivid capacity for descrip tion, could be_adduced ,than his word painting as follows of— THE BOAT RACE. Few things in this vale of tears are more worthy a pen of fire than an English boat race is, as seen by the runners; of whom I have often been one. But this race lam bound to indicate, not describe; I mean, to show how it appeared to two ladies seated on the Henley side of the Thames, nearly opposite the winning-post. These fair novices then looked all down the river, and could just discern two whitish streaks on the water, one on each side of the little fairy isle; and a great black patch on the Berksaire bank. The ihreatening streaks were the two racing boats : the black patch was about a hundred Cambridge and Oxford men, ready to run and hallo with the boats all the way, or at least till the last puff of wind should be run plus halloed out of their young bodies. Others less fleet and enduring, but equally clamorous, stood in'knots at various distances, ripe for a shorter yell and run when the boats should come up to them. Of the natives and country visitors, those, who were not nailed down by bounteous Fate, ebbed and flowed up and down the bank with no settled idea, but of getting in the way as much as possible, and of getting knocked into the Thames as little as might be. There was a long uneasy suspense. At last a puff of smoke issued from a pistol down at the island ; two oars seemed to splash into the water from each white streak; and the black patch was moving ; so were the threatening streaks. Presently was heard a faint, con tinuous, dist tnt murmur, and the streaks began to get larger, and larger, and larger; and the eight splashing oars looked four instead of two. Every head was now turned down the river. Groups hung craning over it like nodding bulrushes. Next the runners were swelled by the stragglers they picked up ; so were their voices; and on came the splash ing oars and roaring lungs. Now the colours of the racing Jerseys peeped distinct. The oarsmen's heads and bodies came swinging back like one, and the oars seemed to lash the water savagely, like a connected row of swords, and the spray squirted at each vicious stroke. The boats leaped and darted side by side, and looking at them in front, Julia could not say which was ahead. On they came nearer and nearer, with hun dreds of voices vociferating, "Go it Cambridge I" " Well pulltd Oxford!" "You are gaining, hurrah I" "`yell pulled Trinity ' " H urrah I" " Oxford I" " Cambridge !" "Now is your time, Haidie; pick her up 1" " Oh, well pulled Six 1" " Well pulled, Stroke 1" " Up, up lift her a bit I" "Cambridge!" "Oxford 1" " Hurrah I" At this Julia turned red and pale by turns. " Oh, mamma I" said she, clasping her hands and colouring high, "would it be very wrong if I was to pray for Oxford to win ?" Mrs Dodd had a monitory finger; it was on her left hand —she raised it, and, that moment, as if she had given a signal, the boats, foreshortened no longer, shot out to treble the length they had looked hitherto, and came broadside past our palpitating fair, the elastic rowers stretched like greyhounds in a chase, darting forward at each stroke so boldly they seemed flying out of the boats, and surging back as superbly, an eightfold human wave : their nostrils all open, the lips of some pale and glutinous; their white teeth all clenched grimly, their young eyes all glowing, their supple bodies swelling, the muscles writhing beneath :heir Jerseys, and the sinews starting on each bare brown arm ; their little shrill coxswains shouting imperiously at the young giants, and working to and fro with them, like jockeys at a finish; nine souls and bodies flung whole into each magnificent effort; water foaming and flying, row locks ringing, crowd running, tumbling, and howling like mad; and Cambridge a boat's nose ahead. The scene, here, lives before us, so to speak—visibly, audibly. And so in regard to other scenes and in cidents. Ex uno disce omnes. The fire at one of the madhouses, for example—Drayton House to wit. The attempted escape from another of them. And—as with the lc calities, so also with the charac ters. We know them, one and all, intimately. We Know them not only in their outward aspect and apparel, bat through all the intricate webwork of their oddities, whimsicalities, and eccentricities. Charming, loveable, womanly, eminently maternal, pre-eminently ladylike, Mrs. Dodds nee Lucy Fountain l Her bewitching " one fair daughter" Julia, the heroine of the book —and such a genuine girl-heroine all through it! Edward, Julia's only brother, Mrs. Dodd's only son, Captain Dodd's only "heir" (for how long a time apparently "to Nothing !")—Edward Dodd, c" Eton, of Oxford—a IA at boating—as good a Fireman as his Grace of Sutherland—as enthusiastic a believer in the '?Tzar as even the Author of the "Great Metropolis"himself could wish to know ! Then, again --the hero of the tale, Alfred Hardie, of course loving and beloved by Julia Dodd—the love of the two, also, of course, running anything but smoothly, and yet, through how many hair-breadth 'stapes and perillous ad ventures, and often seemingly quite disastrous vicis situdes, not coming to grief at the end of these long chapters of accidents! The hoary headed villain of the book, moreover, the godly banker of Barking ton, Alfred's oltrascal of a father, Richard Hardie, that is! His incomparably pious daughter, Jane Hardie, again, Alfred's sister—a bit of a bore, by the way, if the honest truth must be told! And Noah Skinner, the cashier at Hardie's bank,participator in Hardie's fraud ! Mrs. Archbold, too, the matron of the madhouse, she whose very sideling aspect has about it so much of the voluptuous : ex gr. the sub joined incidental mention of her, in the drawing room at Silverto❑ Grave : Her back was turned to Alfred; but it was a beautiful back, with great magnificent neck and shoulders, and a skin like satin ; she was tall but rounded and syinmetrical, had massive but long and shapely white arm, and perfect hand ; and masses of chick black hair sat on her grand white poll like a raven on a marble pillar. And last and certainly not least among the imagi nary people of the tale, one who is introduced to the reader and to the heroine simultaneously, as Dr. Sampson— " And th' Author an' Invintor of th' great Chronothair mal Therey o' hlidicine, th' Unity Perriodicity an' Remit tency of all disease," put in the visitor, with such prodigious swiftness of elocution, that the words went tumbling over one another like railway carriages out on pleasure, and the sentence was a pile of loud, indistinct syllables, Hardly has which singular announcement been uttered by the doctor himself when we read on— Julia's lovely eyes dilated at this dishmaclavar, and she bowed coldly. Dr. Sampson had revealed in this short in terview nearly all the characteristics of voice, speech, and manner, she had been taught from infancy to shun : bois terous, gesticulatory, idiomatic ; and had taken the dis course out of her mamma's mouth, twice; now Albion Villa was a Red Indian hut in one respect : hero nobody interrupted. Yet, the odd "good angel" of the story he turns out to be,—this unconventional Dr. Sampson of " Hard Cash"—with his fantastic little distich (so characteristic of the man !) Jinnyus, .Tinnyus; Take care o' your cark'uss, And his yet more characteristically eccentric pre scriptions : as, for example— TOR MISS DODD. 4 Pit: Hy drarg : Chlor : Co: eingul : nocte sumend : Decoe : Aloes Co : 3 j omni mane. viii, Sept, J. S. FOR MISS DODD. Conf : Sennzo. • Potass: Bitartrat. Extr: Tarax: a a 33s Misft : Elect : Cujus sum: 3j. omni mane. xviii, Sept. J. S. Id :, Anglice reddit : per me Carol: Arundin: The same done into English by me C. R. !OR MISS DODD. 1. 0 Jupiter aid us I I Plummer's pill to be taken every night. 1 oz. compound decoction of Aloes every morning. Sth Sept. J, S. FOE MISS DODD. 2. 0 Jupiter aid us!! with Confection of Senna, Bitar trate of Potash, extract of Dandelion, of each half an ounce, let an electuary be mixed ; of which let her take 1 drachui every morning. 18th Sept. J. S. The whole book itself, by the way, is choke-full of eccentricities—and not merely the note-book and con. versation of Dr. Sampson, the chronothairmalist ! Now, the very song of the seamen of the Agra lay ing in cargo—words and music together I Now parallel columns of a double conversation (vide vol. 1., p. 163). Now another of those wondrously mat ter of fact little medical prescriptions : J Die Mercur. circa, x. hor vespert eat in nausea ad Aulam oppid : 1 Saltet cum xii canicul : proa3ertim meo. Dom : reddita, 6 hors matutin : dormiat ad prand : Repetat stultit : pro re nata. The locality of the Agra, moreover, when first in troduced to us, is settled to a nicety, as if in the log book ! The very thumb mark of Noah Skinner is revealed to us on that missing receipt whereby hangs the whole tangled skein of this in tricately ravelled and dexterously unravelled thread of the narrative ! Does any one want, as it were, to feel the solid earth under his feet while travers ing the haunts of fairyland, let him, under the guidance of Charles Reade, but once adven ture upon the perusal of "Hard Cash" and we warranti him, he will be fairly in for it. En tering successively, but once each, Albion- Villa, where live the Dodds, and Musgrove Cottage, where dwell the Hardies the reader will not care to break away from the glamour wielded over his imagination by the Novelist, until he has traversed every inch of the real, yet ideal, world surrounding that at once starting post and goal of the whole book—the country town of Barking ton. RUMOUR OF A TRUCE, (From the Owl.) We are glad that our last announcement for the season is one of peace. We are in position to state that a suspension of hostilities was yesterday agreed upon between the German Allies and the Danish Government. We trust that this truce may lead to a pacifica. Lion so much needed in the interests of Europe, and to the final disposal of the question which has raised so many difficulties. MARKETS--This Day, MAIcK-LANE. Fresh up to our market to-day, the arrivals of home grown wheat were very moderate, but most samples were received in good condition. On the whole, the trade was steady, and Monday's prices were supported. The supply of foreign wheat on offer was moderately large. In most descriptions, however, sales progressed slowly, yet no material change took place in Monday's quotations. Floating cargoes of grain moved off steadily, at full currencies. Barley—the supply of which was seasonably large—sold steadily, at quite previous rates. Malt was in fair average request, and prices ruled firm, Oats were in good supply, and the demand for them ruled inactive, at the late decline in the currency. Beans and peas were quite as dear as on Monday. The show of samples on the stands was small, The Sour trade, on the whole, was steady, at late rates. ARRIVALS THIS 'WEEE. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flow. English.— 600 1,070 J 3,770 460 Irish — I 1,70 Foraign 9,720 1 24,580 320 sks, Do BOROUGH HOP. Last year's hops are in moderate request, at full prices ; otherwise, the trade is very inactive. Advices from the plantations are not to say favourable. WHITECH.A.PEL. Moderate supplies of meat are on sale here, and the demand rules inactive, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 10d to 48 4d; mutton, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; lamb, 5s Od to 5s 8d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4.s 3d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 6d per Bibs by the carcase. The Countess of Ashburn ham's ball for this even ing, the 13th inst., is unavoidably postponed. The Earl and Countess Delawerr have left their family residence in Upper Grosvenor-street, for Cowes, Isle of Wight, where a house is secured for their reception. Count de la Bourdonnaye and Count Edmund de Lambertye have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Paris. Lord and Lady Aveland entertained at dinner last evening, at their residence in B elgrave-square, the Marquis of Bristol and Lady Adeliza Hervey, the Earl and Countess of Strad broke, Viscount Itanelagh, Lord havens worth, Lord and Lady Chesharn, Lord Hotham, the Bight Hon. Sir David Dundas, lion. It. Dutton, Sir Glynne and Lady We:by- Gregory, Mr Martin Smith, M.P., and Mrs Smith, Mr J. A. B. Beresford-Hopa and Miss Beresford- Hope, iro CAUTION TO SCOTCH DROVERS AND BUTCHERS, —At the Central Criminal Court, yesterday, John Miller, cattle-drover, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with sending a quantity of diseased meat up to Newgate-market, with the intention of causing the same to be exposed for sale. Mr Commissioner Kerr said ho was determined , o put a stop to this kind of thing if possible. Ile would let the people of Scotland know that they could not send their bad meat to London with impunity. This ca se was of the vary worst character, and the sentence of the court was that he be imprisoned for twelve months, that he be fined £5O at the expiration of that time, or lie in Priam tuAtil gnat sum be paid, u:%9 ORO HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, July 12., Her Majesty and the royal family arrived at Osborne yesterday evening at a quarter before eight o'clock, having crossed over from Gosport in the royal yacht Fairy. The Queen landed at the Osborne Pier, and im4 mediately drove to t'he house. The Prince and Princess of Wales, The Prince of IV ales rode on horseback yesterday forenoon, attended by Captoia Grey. A deputation of ladies, consisting of Lady Wriothesley Russell, . Lady Radstock, the Hon. Mrs Lofroy, the Hon. Mrs Warburton, the Hon. Mrs Loake King, Lady Peto, Lady Havelock, Mrs R. Nugent, Miss Havelock, Miss Hamilton, and Miss Harrington, had the honour of presenting a Bible on behalf of the women of the United King. , dom to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales drove to Chis wick in the afternoon, and visited the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland. Their royal highnesses had a dinner party in the evening. The company included their Royal High nesses the Comte and Comtesse de Paris, the Duke of Leinster, the Marchioness of Ely, the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl of Sefton, Viscount Chelsea, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliff?, Lord and Lady Foley, Lord and Lady IlokebYt Lord Henry Lennox, Lieutenant-General and Lady Alice Peel, the Hon. F. Byog, the Hon. Mrs Stonor, Major• General Sir H. Storks, Major General Forster, the Marchioness de Cela (in attendance on the Comtesse de Paris), Lieutenant-General and Mrs Knollys, and Captain Grey. The Hon. Mrs Stonor has succeeded the 3larcbio ness of Carmarthen as Lady in Waiting to the Princess of Wales. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff entertained a select circle at dinner last evening at the residence of the Embassy in Carlton House-terrace. The Mal and Countess of Chesterfield enter tained the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury and a seleo party at dinner yesterday evening at their family residence in Grosvenor-street. The Earl and Countess of Rosse, Lord Oxman town, and family have arrived at the Portland Hotel, South sea, on their way to join his lordship's yacht, the Titania, lying off Southsea Beach. 'tho marriage of Miss Emily Cavendish, third daughter of Mr, Richard Cavendish, with ➢Tr Noel Mundh was solemnised yesterday at St. Paul's Church, Knights bridge, by the Rev. W. Charlton Frampton, rector of More• ton, Dorset, assisted by the Hon. and Rev s R. Liddell. The Emperor and Empress of Mexico. The arrival of the Emperor Maximilian and Ern press Charlotte at Vera Cruz took place on May 26, as already brialy announced by telegraph. The Austrian frigate Novara, in which the voyage wee made, anchored in the port at two o'clock, saluted by a salvo of artillery proceeding from the guns of the squadron at the fortress of Ulloa, and the bas tions of the fortified places. The Emperor and Empress disembarked next day, with their suites, and immediately left by special train for Soledad, on the way to Cordova, where their Majesties passed the night. The city of Mexico welcomed the new Sovereigns with every demonstration of popular delight. Be sides salvoes of artillery, ringing of joy bells, a nd firing of muskets and pistols, the inhabitants crowded into the streets and public places, where the band of the municipal guards was stationed. The French and Mexican flags flying from the prin cipal buildings gave to the capital an air of great rejoicing. The following proclamation was posted by order of the authorities— " The Political Prefect of the Department of the Valley of Mexico to the Mexicans. " Vive l'Empereur ! Our august Sovereign has set his foot on Mexican soil at Vera Cruz. Let us return thanks to Divine Providence for having happily conducted to our soil the man to who'l l it has confided the mission of regenerating our unfortunate country. He will soon be in our midst, and we shall see our hopes realised. Me2Ci' cans celebrate the happy news by,all marks of re• jGicings. Vive our Emperor, Maximilian I! Vice the Empress Charlotte! Vive Napoleon 111., our protector ! Vivo the Franco-Mexican army and WI worthy leaders ! "Mexico, May 28, 1864." On the way through the country from Orizaba the enthusiasm of the people was everywhere 0 0 great as that displayed at Vera Cruz. Subjoined is the speech of the Emperor of Mexico at Vera Cruz on the passage of their Majesties through that city after landing there on May 28 " I am happy that the day has arrived on which I can tread the soil of this beautiful land, my new' country—and salute the people who have elected me. God grant that the geed fortune which has conducted me towards you may be used to the pro' motion of your happiness, and that, with the aid of all good Mexicans, we may see a better future arise. The important department of Vera Cruz and ite capital, which haw, given so many proofs of their patriotism, may be assured of my solicitude. This port being the principal avenue into the interior, all my efforts will be devoted to the development and extension of its commerce. Farewell. I promise to return to see you at a more favourable season, and to remain with you as long as it may be necessary." At Orizaba, his Majesty, in reply to the congratu° lations of the authorities, spoke as follows :-- "In travelling through this beautiful land—mi new country—l have felt deeply the marks of attachment which have been shown towards •me by the generous people who have chosen me to rule their destinies. May Providence hear our prayers and give to the empire the era of peace —so recee' sary to its prosperity and grandeur. The benefit of institutions founded on true liberty, a regular and durable order of things united to the material deve• lopment wbioh the means of easy communicatiort will give you, will at last allow you to make use of the riches with which Providence, more prodigal to wards our soil than towards any other land, has endowed our country. My Government will devote particular attention to your interests. You, gentle men, represent these interests, and on this account , I hope you will display, zeal, patriotism, and scram pulous exactness in the execution of the orders I shall transmit to you." The Indians of Cuautlepa also addressed the Era' peror in the Aztec language, A translation of their address is given from the Spanish version : " Our venerable Emperor, thou hast before thee the poor and humble Indians, thy children. Tbel have come to render homage to thee, in order that thou caayest know that tby arrival fills their hearts with joy. They see in it the rainbow which will drive away the clouds which seem to have for ever rested on our kingdom. Thou art the envoy of the All Powerful. May He give thee the strength to save us. Take this flower. It is the sign of oar Thy children of the Naranjal offer it to Love. :hee." The Emperor replied as follows: " I am much pleased, my well-beloved children , to receive a deputation from your people. I see in it a proof of the confidence reposed in me to restol° the peace and happiness of which you have been E° long deprived. Be as sure d that I shall be /nest solicitous in watching over your interests, you r works, and your agricultural productions, and tha t the improvement of S our condition will always fin d a place in my heart. You can assure the inhabitants of the Naranjal of this." Their Majesties arrived at Puebla on June 4, an d were escorted i n t o the city by an i mmense body of officials, citize ns , and inhab i tants of the surrounding country. It is stated that the Emperor and Empress, il l order to be able to understand without interrae diaries the wants of the people who form the bru t majority of the Mexican. povple, have resolved to learn the Aztec language,